#gets me in the same sore spot as vash’s ’do you think I care if I can win? he is reason enough to fight’
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shastafirecracker · 1 year ago
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I restarted horizon zero dawn and fuck me do these games get me in my feelings. how dare they ask things like what do we owe our descendants, and what do we owe our ancestors, and what do we owe ourselves? and can these things be reconciled, or only balanced, or not even that much but merely attempted, and the only failure is not to try? how do we process the grief of and for people we never knew? is living in the moment enough, or is it cruelly neglectful of both the past and the future, or are the past and future the cruel ones for removing us from the presence of the sublime? stop in a moment when the music is gone and there’s only the rain, and hold your hands up to feel it falling. turn your face to the sun and feel the wind. don’t save the world, save the people in it. there will come soft rains: the video game. and Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone.
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hikennosabo · 11 months ago
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#tristampparty day 11, episode 11: to a new world
can you believe it's almost over already... @tristampparty let's go.
meryl and wolfwood's dynamic is so funny
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two things: one, this is the first time we see present-day-him out of his blankie!! two, he can speak clearly, but vash is struggling to breathe... i wonder if on top of not needing to eat and sleep, knives also doesn't need to breathe... but i also wonder if vash actually needs to breathe himself. considering next episode they fly up into space and vash seems fine.
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okay, i guess "100 years" from episode 9 was a number from conrad...
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wow this is just like 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors for the Nintendo DS
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he says it's his hypothesis so... is he lying or is his hypothesis just wrong? i... i don't know if he would be lying on purpose. or if he's actually right and this is genuine orange original lore (doubt). how did he come to this conclusion? how would he detect the presence or absence of a soul anyway? imagine if this plan actually succeeded in the end. what would have happened? how would conrad have reacted if he was proved wrong?
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viewing knives's microexpressions again like a completely normal person. his face softens when he says this. he really does genuinely care about the plants. it's just that his way of "caring" is. um. Like That.
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COME. LET US TAKE IBUPROFEN TOGETHER.
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subtle storytelling techniques. also again sinners with the capital S. also hello knives, you're so pretty!
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he's both a receiver and a transmitter, wow this is just like 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors for the Nintendo DS
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not to keep overanalyzing knives's expressions, but... he looks a bit sad that vash will forget him. even though HE'S THE ONE MAKING HIM FORGET. ugh. knives, you're so. you're so. so frustrating.
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waaaaiiit knives with the punisher tho... and the hand on the hip... he's serving
so much of this is vash's insecurities being made manifest, i wonder how much "work" knives actually has to do here. vash is full to the brim with guilt, it's not something knives would have to do much to bring out of him. well, most of that guilt is knives's fault to begin with...
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this always gets me. this ALWAYS gets me... "love," he says... love, huh... love... i do think there is love. i do think love exists between them. it exists, but this is not an act of love. or, if you must call it love, if knives is telling himself he's doing this out of love, it's a love filtered through a thousand (or a million, haha, get it) layers of fear and trauma.
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the "plant room" is where tesla is, right? we've only seen the one other geranium. also rem makes an "oh shit" face when nai says that...
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thinking about this conversation. this... back and forth between vash and nai... about how humanlike vash is and how plantlike nai is. it's a sore spot for both of them... it clearly is for vash, but thinking about how nai feels... he's the one who's being asked to put on an act. he's the one being asked to suppress a part of himself. i know that's rem's way of trying to protect him, but... it must make him feel bad. even if he doesn't make it obvious. maybe that's why he keeps making digs at vash. :(
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oh, it did, but if knives were to acknowledge that, his entire worldview would collapse, so...
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vash tabs over to his own profile and then scrolls to tesla's profile. why is nai in a different tab than vash and tesla. for that matter, if vash and nai were supposed to be a secret, why do they have profiles in the database at all. did rem make those? did conrad?
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maybe rem's biggest mistake was letting nai read the bible
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the microexpressions again :')
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he's saying this to manipulate vash but is that the only reason why he's saying it? is this what knives genuinely believes?
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okay i don't care about this guy at all but the fact that he's still holding his noodles is funny. i'd do the same.
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speak for yourself, knives.
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WAIT HIS BLANKIE IS ON AGAIN FOR THIS? hmmm... his blankie. his cocoon, his shield. is it because he's killing rem? again? so he needs his blankie? as a form of comfort. he uses his blankie to hide, it covers his face.
i genuinely do not know what i should call it besides "blankie." sorry.
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the way he words this... i thought maybe he was using cryosleep to extend his life like luida and brad, but no i think he just actually lived that long. he's got a few... attachments(?) so i guess those were part of the life-elongating process...?
hmm maybe he did use cryosleep though, since he said he's done 100 years of research even though it's been 150 years...? either way he's old as fuck though LOL so there is some fuckery going on
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he's doing bad things right now. he's being bad. but his squinty face is so cute LOL
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WHERE was that post that pointed out this looks like rem. bc it does. if you look closely, that's her hair.
ummm... it's after midnight again... i think i should be able to write and publish tomorrow's post in a more timely manner :'D
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